The Camden Journal, 1864-02-12

thli only weapon <>r ntirifk and delencc, more j w;.s no peace: every knave had iiis club, ami clul. law \va> universal. When the sword and I buckler took it> place, war came and went with the season. s 'on a- the harvest was sown, tin- Uoinait wenf out against his neighbor ?>r liis ncitrli1*'?r advanced against. liiia. Gunpow-j der w:ls a great peace maker. Jt", with that in-1 ven-ion. war beeain." more destructive, it reu>ed j to l>e the norma! condition of mankind. It | j*rew more and morn teriihlu?more brief, j Nations t<*11 how ijrcnt the loss must be ol a collision, and statesmen began to a?k them- j sdves if I lie |>os-i!*!e <rain would eijual the in-' rvita'ole h>ss. X<? ?! pasrion, ignorance. j j i'rsonal eupiility, often over-leapt the bunds of reason, and plunged all Europe into horrors; hut the violence never failed I obtain the ro[roach of public opinion?the brand of historv. .,nd no rnier. however poweriul, can dispense villi the in- \-il support of pill die opinion ; and hence, however warlike, the most passionate lever of war will hesitate long, and resort to a thousand tricks, as iiouaparte always did, rather 1 hau appear to Europe as the open aggressor, of blood. r- _Vv*? P,,.di<li I

lAJYy Ul UIUII 111 i?;i rvui'u. . Tuawii vi iiiwov the author examined sopcratoly in detail. The conclusion that the anther came to was that the Gipsies, when above four centuries ago they first appeared in Western Kuropc, were already composed of a mixture of many different races, and that the present Gipsies are still more mongrel. In the Asiastic portions of their lineage there is probably a small amount of Hindoo "blood, , -Hut fb.ia h~<!;thought was-tiia-wosL-iiiat .can ho.f predicted of their Indian pedigree. Strictly speaking, they are not more Hindoos in lineage than they are Persians, Turks Wullacliians or Europeans, f.>r they arc a mixture of ail these, and that in proportions impossible* to he ascer- ( taincd. Dr. Short also read a paper. entitled j 'An account of the Yenadis of the (.'hinglepnt District." Interspersed over not onlv this district, but also over most parts iff Southern India, is a rude class of people, by some supposed to have been aborgincs of the peninsula. This tribe is known by the names of '"Yenadi," "Yiileo," '"N ader" atuK-'.Marannr." The word

.&AST J.ESNES3EIS. UUI1 JUUIIgsu'CCb SCCLUS IU be doing a very handsome business in East Tennessee, lie has re-occupied the greater portion of it. and is now in a position to threat^ en Knoxville, the only stronghold of the Yankees in the Valley of the JLTolston. At last accounts his cavalry were only a few miles from Knoxville,. to which place ail the enemy's forces East of the Holston had been driven. Longstrcet's successes have resulted, no doubt in his securing a large quantity of meat and other food supplies for his anny, in which that rich country abounds. Beef, pork and bacon, wheat, corn, fodder and forage, were much needed by his army, and be has no boubt avail- . ed himself of every opportunity of gathering up these necessaries. His further operations will be looked for with great interest in every part of the Confederacy. The Sword Bayonet.?A general order has been published at Richmond that the use of the sword bayonet having.been generally disapproved by the Board of Officers in the field, to whom the question of its usefulness was re ^^^^k^nanufacture has been ordered to be dM^g|^"bbayonet will b*

ii?\UliIOU V/ll All.1V/ I UIHO I IV?." " t *. . arc not a verv emotional ]??. ?when we do foe! very strongly, we nevertheless think it ?ooil breeding to,betray nothing of the matter. We are apt to treat even a great feeling as the Spartan hoy treated the fox hideti dttiidcr his garment, suffering it to prey upon our very bowels rather than l?y any word, gesture or expression t"> discover what we are harboring. j This is our insular characteristic. Wc all of, us have it, more or less, from the duke to the footman; tin; excess of outward indifference ' being the allowed test of the highest breeding. Educate a man into the insensibility of a post ' and vou make him a perfect gentleman; ron-! der a young lady seemingly pulseless as a prize I turnip, and she is the perfection of the very I choicest female nature. This is (be discipline J ot high life in its very highest; but the frost descends to the very roots of society. We button up our hearts as we button up our great coat-, all the more resolutely if our hearts, like oar great coat pockets, happen to have auy- i

ICUU'll IS a COiTlljmuil 1>I .iiiiiiiiiwi, ui .1 I man who has no guardian or guide. Yilloe i and Yador mean heaters and savages. Mara- j nur, hnntcis or savages who live in the woods, i These people speak the language of ihe dis'rict ; in which thev are located, hut somewhat corrupted. They for the most part foilow no trade or occupation, but generally gain a preearioi:living as wood-cutter?, or by selling dyes, rduis and medicinal herbs, collected in the jungle.? In the Xellore district, they go about with long bamboos sharpened to a point, with which they transfix hares as they squat in the bush with great agility. J Jr. Short had made a trial of some of the these people as servants, and thinks that these, as well as the Yeandis of the Striharcc-cottal), might be made in a few years through philanthropic efforts interested in agriculture, and so redeemed from their arbarons condition.? Liverpool T'nncs. "When is a plant like a hog? "When it be gins to root. And when is it like a soldier? When it begins to shoot. And when is it like

totxcc* : yjm-. . .. ?? r?- - - 3^ISOEXjL-A.ISrEOXJS. THE RLCHMOKD BLOCKADE It UK SEE. The Richmond Examiner, in an editorial which combines an amusing parody on the i description of the ymniu in Mvrius, (oiieol'the | five volumes of Lts Miserable.*,) with a pen ! and ink portrait of the blockade runner, as bo Is known to the Richmond people, thus graphically caricatures the species: "This little creature?this Trochi his <>1>si~ dionalis?this blockade running tomtit?is full of joy. He has rich food to eat everyday. Jle goes to the show every evening, when he is not ? oh duty, lie has a line shirt on his hack; patent leather boots onTiis feet; the pick' and choice of a dozen houses. lie is ol any age? chiefly of the conscript age ; ranges singly or in couples; haunts auction houses; dodges enroll ing officers; eats cauvass-backs; smell? of greenbacks; swears allegiance to both sides; keeps fail 11 with neither; is hand and odovo with Abe's

ferred to the Finance Committee. The .Finance Committee still have the.bill before tberaj and on yes terday xtcre excused from attending * * * *. the session of. the Senate, that their time might be devoted to this important, measure. "The bill, it is said, proposes to rednce the TcdimdnV.'trcmrwey by compulsory fuMingand heavy taxation. Treasury notes now outstanding are to be fundable, for the first month after the passage of the Act, in six per cent., bonds ; the second month after in five per cent., and so on : and all those not funded before the first day of next December, shall be not only no longer fundable, but sisal! be repudiated and declared of no value. "it is reported that in the matter of taxation the bill eut> deep, the tax on the value of all personal property being ten per cent." \hrests i.v Nsw York.?On the 14th inst.; Collector I >urne\\ of New York, refused ? eloer.